Spring 2016 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, city and regional planning
Yicong Yang holds a B.Eng. in urban planning and a M.Res. in urban design. With a strong interest in world geography, she possesses study and project experiences in various countries including China, the U.S., England, Lebanon, and New Zealand. Her previous research thesis on urban informality in a Chinese megacity explored spatiality of informality in the context of urbanization process. Since joining Cornell in the fall of 2015, she has developed an interest in discovering interactions and communications between agents in the urban and natural environment on the basis of her previous exploratory approach to understanding the concrete spatial form and urbanization. As a Mellon Fellow, she is currently pursuing her interest in mapping urbanities (especially in the Brazilian Amazon) through integrating theoretical foundations of human geography and critical philosophy with scientific methods of spatial dynamic modeling and complexity.